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Long One of Our Great Sensualists, Pedro Almodóvar Employs Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton to Full Effect in ‘The Room Next Door’
Each actress cuts a distinctive figure, being unafraid of the camera’s sometimes unforgiving embrace and emboldened by Almodóvar’s knack for crafting indelible female characters.
Led by Jude Law, ‘The Order’ May Have Worked Even Better as a Limited Series Than a Feature Film
The characters deserve more emphasis. The backstories powering Law’s straggly lawman, Tye Sheridan’s go-get-’em novice, and, especially, Nicholas Hoult’s charismatic terrorist would barely fill a bumper sticker.
The Sixth Wallace and Gromit Film, ‘Vengeance Most Fowl,’ Is the Characters’ Second Full-Length Feature
The filmmakers Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham are brilliant at simultaneously yoking genuine suspense and outright farce. Two new characters are the lone misstep here.
An Iranian Working in the Czech Republic, Kaveh Daneshmand Has Crafted a Film of Uncommon Assurance and Unnerving Portent
His debut feature, ‘Endless Summer Syndrome,’ wouldn’t pass muster with Iranian authorities, and given its provocations — about family, parenthood, love, and betrayal — it’s a wonder anyone let him get away with it.
Despite the Frustrations of Moin Hussein’s ‘Sky Peals,’ the Director Appears Worth Watching
What is a filmmaker to do with a character who is preternaturally withholding even as the story is, at its core, a study of those stifled emotions? It is, admittedly, a tough narrative row to hoe.
How Well Has ‘White Christmas’ Stood the Test of Time?
Over the years, the film has been pointed up for being an artifact that is both anti-racist and pro-white supremacy; toxic in its masculinity and proto-feminist; prole-adjacent and at the forefront of queer theory.
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